#that was a tangent lol oops

[selfportrait27]

HD version of a classic Ween photo (probably AI upscaled). 1992-ish.

[geniusphilester]

honestly i think a lot of us gays feel like that about marriage in my experience. like of course we want the right to marriage, but it's common to not really care about it because of the baggage and history of it.

i feel like dan for sure, i just don't see a wedding as a necessity, i just want a commited life partner :)

(marriage talk)

speaking as a queer that will probably never get married but thinks the option to legal access is vital: i get it! i bet dan's relationship to marriage as a concept is very complicated in a number of ways, both personal and political (again, hoo boy, do i get it). that dan wants to make sure everyone understands that he doesn't want to get married or believes in soulmates but manages to still convey that it's not remotely because of his connection to phil for either of those stances...it's one of my favorite things, honestly

[liaisun]

Hii, I was wondering where did Riko being 19 at death came from? I understand if it's a headcanon but I've seen a couple other people mention this and got confused, since what I got from tsc was that Jean was younger than Riko and Kevin and had to get in college earlier because of them...

hi!! riko's age isn't known exactly, but nora said he's 5 years younger than ichirou, who is 24. so going by that timeline, riko is either 19 years old, or 20 if he has an early birthday! that's where it comes from

in the original aftg trilogy, jean was actually intended to be older than riko and kevin, around 23ish if i remember correctly. however when writing tsc, nora decided to change his age and have it confirmed that jean is 19. we also don't know jean's birthday at this point, so it could be that jean has a later birthday in the same year as riko, or that he has an early birthday in the year after, so they both happen to be 19 even though jean is younger.

also jean's schooling timeline could be altered considering he's from france. in the US it was pretty common to put someone one grade year behind in school than their age group if they had recently immigrated and didn't speak english. i believe this was before ESL programs (example: happened to my uncle in the 70s lmfao) but considering everything, i doubt jean got an ESL education even if it was available bc tetsuji didn't give a damn abt him besides exy 😭 anyway, that's another angle to why jean could be considered as entering college early besides his age

[frogprincesnowglobe]

One of my favorite Henry (Or Henry and Walter) moments is this very very in the background scene from Season 1 Episode 3 at 33:50. It's right in between Simon heading off to meet Wille to stay for the weekend and in the middle of Wille texting Simon. For some reason that will never make sense to me the English subtitles call Henry Vincent and then call Walter Henry in this scene, but it's Henry and Walter for sure, lol.

In the English dubs:

Henry: Well, here's the thing, our parents knew each other growing up.

Henry: They dated for a year [unintelligible because some background boy talks louder] before...

Walter: Wow, that's crazy! I had no idea.

Henry: No, I know.

Walter: How long have you known?

Henry: I know-- I know because my like my dad recognized your last name so he like, he like asked me if, if I know your or your family.

Walter: Oh! Okay.

Henry: Yeah I know.

Walter: That explains why there was [unintelligible because someone who sounds very British randomly says what sounds like "bloody vibe" over the top lol]

Henry: Yeah it's really like, like they knew each other

I can't speak Swedish so I don't know what the Swedish version says and the subs stop to focus on Simon and Wille texting (as you do, haha). This is one of my favorite moments though because it's so in the background and just a cute little moment between two friends. It also kind of seems like they're adlibbing here maybe? This is just after parents day and unless I missed it we don't actually see Henry or Walter with their parents.

But we really don't get a lot of information about most of the side characters, and here we have Henry and Walter telling us that their parents knew each other when they were younger and that they even dated each other for a whole year? I need to know everything!

Also it gives me so many plot ideas, maybe not even for the show but for fanfic or something. Like Henry's parents and Walter's parents are divorced and then Henry and Walter become stepbrothers when their parents get back together, or what if Henry's dad and Walter's mom had Walter and then at the same time Henry's dad and mom had Henry and they're half brothers.

[kirkwallguy]

it's very cheesy and heavy-handed but it's cute that you can compare coming out experiences with maevaris

[camellcat]

I keep thinking about this one fic, where amy gets sent back in time to the beginning of s1 by a weeping angel, and like. idk. I want to see clara in s1. idk how'd she get there. probably some wackiness of converging timelines or whatever since we already know she's, like, woven throughout his entire life. but I just wanna see her reaction to nine and rose. specifically nine. and then seeing how different s2 ten is to ANY doctor she's ever known. I want her there!!! plus her and rose would be best friends SORRY I keep saying it but it's TRUE

[glitterslag]

hey i just wanted to say that i think about your spooky Appalachian folk fic every single day. it was genuinely one of the most hauntingly (in every sense) beautiful pieces of writing i have ever read. your command of the characters and landscape is just so divine. anyway. please write more for the bear if you feel like it, i will be first in line. or even just share the wildest headcanons you have, i want to pick your brain about the whole show. hope u had a good day today!

OH YOU ARE A SWEETHEART thank you so so much!!!! 🥺💕💕 kissing you big..

I do actually have a couple WIPs rn!

It's funny bc I'm really struggling to leave my spooky universe alone... I have way too much fun writing about it and now I'm done with the main plot I wanna have fun writing random deleted scenes, hopefully to post soon! 🫣 And I have another sydcarmy wip that's completely new too :)

[steampunkedparm]

something something please dont ask me "are you sure your asexual??" when i sometimes talk about the possibility of having sex

YES!! I AM STILL ASEXUAL!! EVEN IF I EXPRESS THE DESIRE TO HAVE SEXUAL ENCOUNTERS!! EVEN IF I MAKE SEX JOKES (damn near all the jokes i make, mind you)!!

asexuals fuck. asexuals dont. what does and doesn't go on in someones bed is none of your fucken business unless. you're. in. it.

[fideidefenswhore]

In August 1525 the king granted him the honours, castles, rents and other hereditaments which belonged to the king's paternal grandparents, Edmund Tudor, Earl of Richmond, and Margaret Beaufort, as well as those that had previously belonged to Margaret Beaufort's father, John Beaufort, Duke of Somerset. In addition to this, the boy received a number of fine properties, including his great-grandmother's favourite residence of Collyweston.

Bessie Blount – Mistress to Henry VIII, Elizabeth Norton

[firegiftlouis]

Do you think the show will ever explore how Louis’ family found out he was gay?

No idea honestly, and tbh I’m not sure they’d really need to necessarily? It honestly doesn’t take much for people to start speculating irl. All it takes is not living up to the performance of straight masculinity for people to start wondering even now but especially back then, and I get the impression Louis always struggled to live up to those standards. There’s also the fact he and Jonah were childhood friends so it wouldn’t be too surprising their families felt they were “too” close as they got older.

I’ve seen a fic or two where he and Jonah are discovered or rumored to be fooling around and that’s how they learn it, and while I don’t mind that idea, I kind of like how the show alludes to the less dramatic side of that coin, where everyone could tell there’s just something “different” about Louis possibly before even he knew, and they just keep it as this open secret of sorts that they’re willing to ignore about Louis as long as he isn’t open about it. It’s a depressing dynamic but it’s one that happens a lot 😔

[immortalled]

also. just. on that last post’s note...

i love that nathan loves his power, too. his relationship with it isn’t a healthy one--he abuses it, lets it lessen the meaning of his deaths both to himself and the people who love him, and he attaches an extremely unhealthy importance to having a “really cool power”--but he loves being immortal.

i’ve sort of come to terms with the idea that some of the christmas special could be plausibly in-character (just... wow, not that fast, and not in that very exact circumstance), and it is kind of hilariously nathan to sell his immortality for cheap because he let himself be snookered into accepting a lowball offer, and it is, actually, pretty in-character for him to be willing to sacrifice something he loves for someone he loves without giving any real forethought.

but i think the situations where nathan would give up immortality are so specific and so rare that it’s almost impossible. and he would likely regret it later, even if he felt good about his decision in the moment.

there’s too much manic love for being an unkillable, chaotic pest in the universe lmao and, as in the last post, too much love for living.

[piduai]

yeah I agree, tsurumi mogs makima both writing and design wise. anyways, I wonder why GK isn’t popular at all in the west though, it’s unironically soooo good. It’s one of the only modern shonen/seinen animangas I’ve been able to get into in the last 8 years.

ok but to be fair what was the last seinen that got *mainstream*? in the west... or even in japan. things that become super viral here are either shounens or otaku shit. over the course of the last 8 years at least; when i came here it was towards the end of snk's popularity (shounen) but it was still everywhere. then it got replaced by love live (otaku), then by touken ranbu (otaku). then... wow i do not remember 2016-2020 at all... anyway kimetsu no yaiba (shounen) was a positive explosion, perhaps the craziest thing i've witnessed like it was EVERYWHERE. then jujutsu kaisen (shounen) was there briefly... then it was madness with spy x family (shounen). now that tokyo rangers or whatever (shounen) thing is everywhere. like most of the time it's a shounen jump series. things that were/are wildly popular in the west? from what i can judge it's like... naruto, snk, bnha (all shounens). opm used to be crrrrrrazy popular (shounen). uh, haikyuu? maybe? both shounen and otaku. i really can't name a seinen that would actually be overwhelmingly popular, even berserk was never a first choice darling, it's a cult classic but more people know of it rather than have read it. seinens are just generally heavier which is like raid for mainstream popularity, most people just want to have fun while watching a cartoon, not like get into characterization or themes or whatever. so it's always gonna be shounens. that being said, while gk is actually extremely popular in japan with manga appreciators (it will never be *mainstream* but it's genuinely beloved, has a dedicated fandom, and is considered a qualitative work), it does seem to be underground even outside of jp... what can i say. not everyone can be OK with bearfucking i guess

[undyinglantern]

watching this to figure out exactly how far I got without having to read dozens and dozens of episode summaries and kinda surprised I barely got more than half way

[bighandsforabigheart]

I love how crazy AA2 is

The first case is literally like “damn we gotta explain how court works again but this time the MC knows what he’s doing so how should we do the tutorial” and the solution to it is “oh let’s hit him with a fucking fire extinguisher and give him amnesia and make him part of the case”

The antagonist is a literal child that physically abuses everyone including the Judge just to get everything her way. She’s terrifying.

And the dude the players saved in the previous game (and why AA is a thing in the first place) is apparently dead. Dead. Gone. Players wondering for the first three cases on where he is and he’s just. Dead. And you probably know he’s not literally dead but now you’re taken back by how overdramatic the typically dry MC is. “Should’ve stayed dead” after everything he’s done in the previous game is so. Being pissed that the man looked up to ran away instead of accepting your help is so. So gay.

God I love how Phoenix was pissed that Edgeworth returned a year later fully recovered without help, without his help, when you know Edgeworth was thinking about how he could become the man fit to stand against Phoenix the entire time he was gone. Phoenix’s idolization of Edgeworth and Edgeworth’s determination to be worthy of Phoenix’s support is what drives them and that’s why they’re literally soulmates.

[sunlightfeeling]

Proceeds to play Flow on infinite loop

[cottoncandysecretlair]

I definitely agree on account of zoning laws, they're absurd and archaic and in a lot of places they're straight up designed to keep "undesirables" away from certain areas. There's no damn reason for shit like minimum size requirements on homes when people are shoving tiny homes in their parents backyard, or banning duplexes because of the "riffraff" or whatever bullshit reason that a building designed to house two families shouldn't exist in a neighborhood.

I fucking remember as a kid that due to "local zoning" my family had to take down the 6 ft wood fence around their yard. They put it up so they could leave me alone in the yard when I was a tiny kid, as well as to keep our overprotective German Shepard from getting false alarms. What do ya know, less than a month after the fence was take down, a delivery guy ignored "beware of dog" signs spaced every two feet on that fence and tried to come in the yard, he got his ass bit. (Thankfully she didn't have to get put down, she was at fault for ignoring the 20 different beware of dog signs).

Hmm yes we should abolish private car ownership and be dependent on bus lines that will need to stop every block and jam as many people as possible onto each bus at every possible interval so your 30 minute car ride to work must be planned 1 hour in advance while a homeless man pisses on you for not giving him $20 for some cigs and a beer and another person to your left will reek as if soap and running water simply do not exist

(Celebrities and politicians are allowed private transport for their safety of course)